BOTANICAL NOTICES OF NEW PLANTS. 



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by him to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, in which establishment it flowered in the 

 open border in September, 1835. Bot. Mag. 



GESNERIEiE. 



Gesneria stricta. Hook. Upright Gesneria. Bot. Mag. t. 3738. This 

 Gesneria is stated to be upwards of five feet high, and the flowering portion to 

 extend for a foot and more. The flowers, however, judging from the plate in the 

 Magazine, are not so brilliant as many of the species. Roots of it were sent by 

 Mr. Tweedie from Rio Grande, in South Brazil, to the Glasgow Botanic Garden, 

 and in the stove of that establishment it produced its flowers in 1835. 



It resembles G. Sceptum in its habit ; but the flowers are remarkable for the 

 curvature on the upper side, and following its direction : the style is singularly 

 geniculated at the bore ; the upper, too, is much longer : the style and anther 

 are exserted. Bot. Mag. 



BORAGINEiE. 



Cynoglossum Ccelestinum. Lindl. Blue and white Hounds-tongue. Bot 

 Reg. N. S, t. 36. This is a pretty plant, but only biennial, and said to inhabit 

 the north part of India. It was raised at the gardens of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society, from seeds which were presented to that establishment by John 

 Nimmo, Esq., of Bombay, and flowered for the first time in August, 1838. It 

 differs from C. uncinatum in its fruit, and in its leaves not being at all acuminate, 

 from C. microglochin, longiJZorum, and grandijlorum, in having the cauline leaves 

 not rounded at the base, and from C. glockidiatum in its smaller, and much less 

 hairy flowers, as well as its broader and more cordate leaves. Bot. Beg. 



ASCLEPIADACEiE. 



Ceropegia Vine^efolia. Hook. Periwinkle-leaved Ceropegia. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3740. This is a very handsome climbing plant, bearing dark-purple petals, 

 and was received at the Glasgow Botanic Garden from Bombay, through J. 

 Nimmo, Esq. It requires the stove, and its flowers are produced in abundance 

 in the month of September. Bot. Mag. 



MONOCOTYLEDONES. 

 Lilium Thunbergianum. Roem. Thunberg's Orange Lily. Bot. Beg. N. S. 

 t. 38. This is a noble plant, and was drawn at the establishment of Messrs. 

 Rollisons in June 1838, and is one of those which have been introduced into 

 Europe from Japan by Dr. Siebold. It was originally found by Thunberg, who 

 first referred it to L. Philadelphicum, although its sepals and petals are sessile ; 

 afterwards to L. bulbiferum, although it had no bulbs, and is also destitute of 

 the papillae, which render the inside of the flower of that species scabrous. In 

 the cultivation of this handsome species (which grows about three feet high, and 

 flowers from the beginning of July to the end of September, if properly treated), 

 the bulbs should be fresh potted, or planted in a pit that is well protected from 

 wet, late in the autumn, or very early in the spring, in a mixture of sandy-peat 



